Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020516102123.060e39e8@lnxmain> X-Sender: roland@lnxmain Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:24:15 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Roland Glenn McIntosh Subject: Re: locate and it's db In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" It was I who came up with that dirty substitute. It's worth noting that it doesn't do anything the *real* updatedb script does like pruning and ignoring /tmp and the like. Also, you'll have to mkdir /usr/var in your cygwin installation unless you set the LOCATE_PATH environment variable. -rgm At 04:54 PM 05.15.2002 -0700, Ghosty wrote: >try this: > >alias updatedb='find / -name "*" | /usr/libexec/frcode > /usr/var/locatedb >&' > >I found this somewhere, I forgot where, so I can not give the credit to the >author. > >-- >Ghosty -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/